Black Lightning Returns In New TV Promo

by Erik Amaya

The CW has released a new promo for the upcoming series Black Lightning. In it, an unnamed character, likely James Remar as Peter, announces the return of Black Lighting, which may be a bit confusing to casual viewers of CW shows like Supergirl.

The series, which is a 100% new program, centers on Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), a retired superhero raising his two daughters and working as the principle at a local charter high school. But when an old family foe returns to pollute the streets with drugs and violence, he’s forced to become Black Lightning once more and protect his city.

It is a prompt which sets the show apart from the other CW supershows — they all began as origin stories — but can also lead to some misunderstanding. A member of my own family sent me a text after it aired asking me if I already watch the show. I responded by saying it’s a new show. They sent the follow text: “But it said ‘he’s back.'”

Erik Amaya

Host of Tread Perilously and a Film/TV Writer at Comicon.com. A contributing writer at CBR, Fanbase Press, Monkeys Fighting Robots and Rotten Tomatoes. Voice of Puppet Tommy on The Room Responds. A seeker of the Seastone Chair and the owner of a Legion Flight Ring. Sorted into Gryffindor, which came as some surprise.